A Mango-Shaped Space

Having never read a book from a synesthete character perspective, this provides a unique window into a different way of perceiving the world. Alas, I am a cranky OLD, so I wasn't enamoured of the obligatory middle grade book requirements: early teen figuring out how changing relationships with friends and family and responsibility of school work can be balanced with new priorities/self-interest, finding out which boy is a jerk and which isn't. 
Themes of dealing with loss, figuring out how your struggles can also be a point of commonality, something you can share, and even a way to help others, through grief, through isolation, felt more widely applicable across age groups.
As this book was written 20 years ago, with input from, but not by a synesthete, I am aware it may differ in reception by own voices. Some of the ‘what's wrong with our daughter?' and ‘it's okay she's normal' language reads like ableism from a modern viewpoint. 
⚠️Animal death, ableism